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March 2
Playing with fire
6:24 p.m. First block of Primrose Lane. Structure fire.
A deputy on patrol responded to a call about a house fire and found the 20-year-old caller standing outside of his burnt garage.
The 20-year-old man said a 14-year-old in the home had burned an apple in the garage and then set the burning apple on a box, which caught flame. The boy pulled the box out of the garage and stuck it in a garbage can, “creating a bonfire in front of the garage,” according to the deputy’s incident report.
Firefighters checked to make sure the fire was out and that the garage area was clear of flashbacks.
The found the half-burned apple with a pile of other torched items in front of the garage.
The boy was charged with criminal mischief due to his “fascination with fires,” according to the report.
The deputy gave him a civil citation requiring 25 hours of community service, and referred him to the fire department’s juvenile fire program. If he doesn’t complete the terms of the citation, the charge will be “forwarded to the State Attorney’s Office for review and possible prosecution,” according to the report.
March 4
That’s just not cool
3:54 p.m. 200 block of Palm Coast Parkway. Car burglary.
Someone broke into the work van of a refrigeration company employee while the employee was inside a local supermarket on a job.
The employee realized something was wrong when he returned to the van, opened the back doors and noticed a bucket out of place.
The thief stole a torch set with hoses, acetylene, oxygen tanks and striker, together worth $400; a nitrogen tank and regulator, worth $200, a blue toll bag worth $34 and full of hand tools, an electrical meter worth $135, two refrigeration gauges, together worth $390, and a Rigid 3/8-inch drill, worth $100.
The employee told a deputy that at one point he’d returned to the van during the job to get his tablet, and may have forgotten to lock it.
The deputy wrote in an incident report that there were no signs of forced entry and no physical evidence to collect.
March 8
Another unlocked door
4:38 p.m. 4700 block of Clove Ave., Daytona North. Burglary.
A 36-year-old man told deputies he left the house at about 8:30 in the morning, returned at about 4:30 p.m., and found his living room “trashed” and his Sony DVD player missing from its spot atop the TV.
The burglar also left the bedroom in disarray and stole a gold necklace that belonged to a 27-year-old woman in the house, as well as 70-80 10-mg Oxycodone pills.
The victims habitually left the front door unlocked “due to a key issue they are having with the landlord,” according to the deputy’s incident report. There were no suspects when the deputy wrote the report.
Password, please
5:57 p.m. 100 block of Brookhaven Court South. Delayed residential burglary.
A woman got home at about 6 p.m. March 6 and realized her two iPads were missing from their usual spot on top of the fridge.
The 36-year-old woman’s 11-year-old son’s iPhone 4s was gone from his bedroom, too. At first, she thought her children may have lost the gadgets. But then she got an email saying her iCloud was accessed by someone in Port Orange. She checked her social media accounts and saw that a thief had gotten into many of them, and had also called her mother on Skype asking about the iPad passwords. Someone also contacted her son on Xbox Live asking for his account information.
A 34-year-old woman who lived across the street said she’d recently had her husband removed from the home, and that the couple had been friends with the victim and were often at her house.
Deputies looked up the husband, and a deputy wrote in his report that the man was arrested in July 2014 on a burglary charge and “therefore could be considered a possible suspect.” The deputy was not sure how the thief entered the home.
March 9
Someone’s taking tardiness seriously
1:44 p.m. First block of Riddle Drive. Delayed car burglary.
A 20-year-old man went out to his black Infiniti to go to school in the morning, opened his glove box, and saw that someone had stolen a bag holding his 80 Hydrocodone and 30 Clonazepam pills.
But he didn’t call the Sheriff’s Office until hours later, explaining to a deputy that he “did not call when he first noticed his medication missing because he could not be late for school,” the deputy wrote in an incident report.
Deputies saw no signs of forced entry on the car.
The 20-year-old told them he needed a police report in order to refill his prescription. Deputies didn’t check the car for evidence because the crime scene had been contaminated.
